Arctic Ocean

Earth has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 35,000 square kilometres since 1979, a new NASA study has found.
“Even though Antarctic sea ice reached a new record maximum this past September,

Ocean surface waves (sea and swell) are generated by winds blowing over a distance (fetch) for a duration of time. In the Arctic Ocean, fetch varies seasonally from essentially zero in winter to hundreds

Last year, 2013, was tied with 2003 as the fourth warmest year since records began in 1880, according to the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). For the 37th consecutive

We investigated the impact of radiosonde data from the ice-free Arctic Ocean obtained by the Japanese R/V Mirai during a cruise in the fall of 2010 on the AFES-LETKF experimental ensemble reanalysis version

The amount of sea ice in the Arctic has fallen to the lowest level on record, a confirmation of the drastic warming in the region. Satellites tracking the extent of the sea ice found over the weekend that